18. “Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from amongst the Levites;
19. but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone to his service and to his burden;
20. but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
21. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
22. “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
23. you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.